126 So. 2d 737 | Fla. | 1961
This is a workmen’s compensation case in which the deputy commissioner and the Florida Industrial Commission held successively that the claimant, Alpha Omega Rowe, the respondent here, was entitled to compensation under the Workmen’s Compensation Act, Chapter 440, Florida Statutes, F.S.A.
Respondent was employed by one of the appellants as a teacher in a nursery school. One of her duties was to act in a supervisory capacity during the absence on vacation of the regular supervisor and to collect certain nursery fees. On the Friday before the injury occurred, respondent had collected $30 in fees and had retained possession of the money, inasmuch as she had been instructed not to leave money at the school overnight. Respondent contends that she was carrying the money with her upon the requirement and instructions of her employer and therefore her claim for injuries suffered should be allowed.
The related questions here are whether the respondent’s injury arose “out of and in the course of employment”, within the meaning of Section 440.09, Florida Statutes, F.S.A., and whether the case falls within the exceptions to the “going and coming” rule which exempts an employer from liability under workmen’s compensation acts when the employee is going to and from his regular work. See Bowen v. Keen, 154 Fla. 161, 17 So.2d 706. In our opinion both of these questions must be answered in the negative.
“To shoulder industry with the burden of paying compensation to an injured worker there must be some causal connection between the employment and the injury.” See Glasser v. Youth Shop, Fla., 54 So.2d 686, 687, and cited cases. Here we see no causal connection whatever be
For the reasons stated the order under review is quashed and the cause remanded with directions to deny the claim.
It is so ordered.